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Elysian vs Paradisal - What's the difference?

elysian | paradisal | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between elysian and paradisal

is that elysian is of or pertaining to Elysian or Elysium, the location while paradisal is like paradise; paradisiacal.

As a proper noun Elysian

is (Classical mythology) Elysium; home of the blessed, after death.

elysian

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (Classical mythology) Elysium; home of the blessed, after death.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to Elysian or Elysium, the location.
  • (idiomatic) Happy, blissful, heavenly.
  • * 1913. Charles George Herbermann, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work... , Encyclopedia Press, page 573:
    • Unlike Raphael's "Galatea" and his "Three Graces", examples of Elysian happiness in a race in the state of innocence, Guilano's decorations resemble saturnalia of lubricity itself.

    Related terms

    * Elysian Fields

    paradisal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like paradise; paradisiacal.
  • *2009 , (Karen Armstrong), The Case for God , Vintage 2010, p. 35:
  • *:The garden had been planted by the god Yahweh, who had caused a spring to gush forth in the eastern desert to create a paradisal oasis.